Ivan Cukic

Ivan is an active advocate of modern C++ practices mixed with functional programming concepts. He is the author of Functional Programming in C++ book published by Manning, which aims to teach practical FP techniques for C++ developers.

He has been a KDE contributor for a decade, mainly working on the Plasma workspace, and lower-level frameworks for tracking and managing user actions. Maintainer and main developer of the KActivities and surrounding frameworks.

Also, he is a doctoral candidate (PhDc) at the Computer Science department of the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade with main research revolving around the programming language design, concurrency and monadic computations.